D: drive not visible in explorer as well as Disk Management

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  1. Posts : 10
    windows 7 ultimate
       #1

    D: drive not visible in explorer as well as Disk Management


    I have a 80GB HDD partitoned as C: & D:. I recently installed Windows 7. Although it installed perfectly, d: was not visible during setup. It is missing in the Windows Explorer. I tried diskmgmt.msc and the drive does not appear there.

    Help would be appreciated.
    Last edited by varuna5; 07 Sep 2012 at 08:27. Reason: Better response
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  2. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello Varuna,

    It sounds like Windows may have formated the complete HDD during installation. Please go ahead and post a screenshot of your Disk Management window showing your full HDD layout to see if it may be able to help ID the issue.

    In addition, open an elevated command prompt, and type the following in bold below, and post a screenshot of the command prompt showing all of it. It's to see what it shows as well for what disks and partitions/volumes you have. You can just close the command prompt afterwards. :)
    • diskpart (press Enter)
    • list disk (press Enter)
    • list volume (press Enter)
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  3. Posts : 10
    windows 7 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Hi Brink,
    I tried diskpart in windows 7.But it shows only the c: drive as disk 0. if I select drive 0 and list partition it shows nothing.A small problem. My brother in a hurry installed windows XP in the C: drive. But the D: is still missing. I am posting this screenshot from Windows XP. diskpart in windows XP is not working
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails D: drive not visible in explorer as well as Disk Management-diskmanagement.jpg  
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  4. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #4

    While in Windows 7, what does it show for "list disk" and "list volume"?

    If you have Windows 7 and XP installed on the same computer to dual boot with, and you can only see the current OS's HDD while booted in it, then you may have them set to not be able to see the other's HDD. This is normally done between XP and Windows 7 so as not to have Windows 7 restore points deleted everytime you startup into XP.

    You might take a look at OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to see if your registry is set this way to prevent XP and/or Windows 7 from seeing the other.

    System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete - Vista Forums

    Hope this helps for now. :)
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  5. Posts : 10
    windows 7 ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Hi brink...Windows XP was installed on C: drive. D: drive contains data.I am not dual booting it with Windows 7
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  6. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #6

    Ah, ok. It would then appear that your favorite brother just wiped out D as well when he installed XP.
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  7. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #7

    Ya but even if he wiped it, it should still show in disk management. This is odd.

    Could it possibly have something to do with the fact that C: was formatted using FAT32 ??

    And now disk mgt will only show partitions formatted this way ?

    I`ve only used NTFS with XP so I`ve never come across this.
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  8. Posts : 71,959
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #8

    I suppose that would depend on if the HDD was deleted until "unallocated space" that would also eliminate the D partition as well, then the HDD formatted by XP when installed.
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  9. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #9

    Does the hard drive have jumpers that allow you to set a 32 GB cap ? Were they touched ?

    Greg, where are you ? Shed some light for us.
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  10. Posts : 6,330
    Multi-Boot W7_Pro_x64 W8.1_Pro_x64 W10_Pro_x64 +Linux_VMs +Chromium_VM
       #10

    Maybe using bootable Partition Wizard would show something different that might help explain this ?

    I'd give that a try to see what it shows.
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